KR20070009226A - Mobile soundbook system and its service method - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a mobile soundbook system and a service method for outputting a book content based on sound rather than text in providing an e-book service to a portable communication terminal.

The present invention is to record the contents of the book in various forms of voice to provide in various forms of sound format, and additionally to build a corresponding sound e-book database to provide text and image data, and provide it to the portable communication terminal Depending on the wireless Internet, the contents of the e-book can be provided in the form of texts and images as well as sound, so the contents of the book can be output as sound rather than text, which does not cause eyestrain, As a sound for children and elderly people who do not know, the contents of the book can be easily delivered, and based on the sound and pictures, it can be easily used for educational services.

Description

MOBILE SOUND BOOK SYSTEM AND SERVICING METHOD OF IT}

1 is a block diagram of a mobile soundbook system according to the present invention.

2 is a detailed configuration diagram of the soundbook server of FIG. 1.

3 is an operation explanatory diagram of the soundbook server of FIG. 1;

4 is a diagram illustrating a guide screen for a sound e-book provided by the soundbook server of FIG. 1.

5 and 6 are diagrams illustrating the operation of the sound e-book service in the present invention.

7 is an example of application to education of the present invention.

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100: portable communication terminal 200: sound e-book database

300: soundbook server 310: book sound file generator

320: sound format producer 330: sound e-book provider

The present invention relates to a mobile soundbook system and a service method thereof, and more particularly, to a mobile soundbook system and a service method thereof so that a mobile sound ebook can be implemented by outputting a book content mainly in a sound in a mobile ebook service. will be.

As Internet and digital technology developed, books began to be produced in digital form, and digital books were e-books. E-books have recently attracted a great deal of attention as e-learning tools.

E-books are expected to be widely used in the digital age because they do not cost publication costs, do not require materials such as paper and ink, do not have inventory concerns, and do not cost distribution costs.

In addition to the above-mentioned advantages, the e-book can be produced and distributed separately, even if the revised edition is published. Therefore, the existing paper book has improved the inconvenience of having to buy a new book when the revised edition is published. The feature is that the information can be provided to the reader.

To use an e-book, install an e-book running program on your computer, run the program whenever you want to read the book, and view the e-book. The e-book running program can be installed not only on a desktop computer or a notebook computer, but also on a hand held personal computer (HPC) or a palm PC, and can be installed and used on a portable device such as a personal digital assistant (PDA) or an e-book reader.

In addition, in an era of frequent movements such as modern times, a system for viewing e-books while moving is required, and books can be read while using a laptop or HPC, and a Palm PC or PDA, but in recent years, it is not only portable. In addition, an e-book service using a portable communication terminal such as a mobile phone that modern people always carry is being attempted.

However, compared to PDAs and PCs, mobile phones are printed in small text on the LCD display, making it difficult for users to subscribe.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the above, and an object of the present invention is to provide an earphone or a built-in speaker without a user looking at a small LCD display by outputting a book content based on sound rather than text in performing an e-book service on a portable communication terminal. The present invention provides a mobile soundbook system and a service method thereof through which the contents of a book can be heard and recognized.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a mobile soundbook system and a service method thereof, by which a sound and a content corresponding to the sound can be output as text or a picture so as to obtain a better effect in use in an education business. Is in.

Mobile soundbook system according to the present invention for achieving the above object, in a system for providing an e-book to a portable communication terminal via the wireless Internet, the contents of the e-book through the wireless Internet in various forms of sound formats Providing sound book server; And the sound book server to provide the contents of the e-book in various sound formats and to store the e-book data so that the user of the portable communication terminal can listen to the contents of the e-book in various voices. E-book database; characterized in that comprises a.

The sound book server may include: a book sound file generator for generating an e-book sound file through recording book contents; A sound format producer for producing a sound file generated by the book sound file generator in various sound formats; And a sound e-book providing unit for providing the mobile communication e-book S / W to the portable communication terminal via the wireless Internet to execute the sound format produced by the sound format production unit and the e-book data in the portable communication terminal. Characterized in that.

In addition, the sound book server is characterized in that to provide the contents of the e-book as text and image data.

The present invention for achieving the above object, in a method for servicing an e-book to a portable communication terminal via wireless Internet, the sound electronic to record the contents of the book in various forms of voice to provide a variety of sound formats Building a book database; And providing electronic book data in the form of a sound format from the sound e-book database to the portable communication terminal according to the sound e-book service request from the portable communication terminal.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the following examples are merely to illustrate the present invention is not limited to the contents of the present invention.

1 is a block diagram of a mobile soundbook system according to the present invention. The present invention provides a portable communication terminal 100 capable of wireless Internet access, and a sound ebook database 200 in which various ebook data are stored in a sound format. The sound book server 300 provides e-book data in a sound format stored in the sound e-book database 200 to the portable communication terminal 100.

The sound e-book database 200 stores member information for member authentication, and stores e-book data for each type so as to select a voice actor and voice type for reading a book for each e-book content, and the e-book data. To service a variety of sound formats such as MMF, MP3, MP4, mid, midi, etc., the most common 4-poly / 16-poly sound formats supported by the portable communication terminal 100, as well as the sound formats of other portable communication terminals. E-book data is stored for each sound format.

In addition to the sound format, the educational e-book also stores image data that can be output as a picture from the mobile communication terminal 100 together with text data for the corresponding education.

In such a system, the sound book server 300 is illustrated in FIG. 2 through the book sound file generator 310, the sound format producer 320, and the sound e-book provider 330, as shown in FIG. 2. The e-book service can be implemented as a sound through the source content step M1, the mobile content production step M2, and the mobile service step M3.

In the original content stage (M1), when a scenario writer for each content writes a scenario, a professional voice actor or the like records the e-book sound file.

At this time, professional voice actors can record various voices such as sweet or refreshing voices to provide various types of sounds to users, and also record sound effects according to the contents of the book.

In the mobile content production step (M2), the e-book sound file produced in the source content step (M1) is produced in various forms of sound formats to support this as the sound formats supported by the user portable communication terminals 100 vary. Done.

For example, MMF, MP3, MP4 (DMIF), mid, midi, etc. are produced in a sound format and stored in the sound e-book database 200.

In the mobile service step (M3) to implement a mobile service that performs a sound output for the e-book according to the user's request, for this purpose, the mobile server 300 is a software for enabling users to receive the sound output e-book service It will be constructed to provide service conditions for sound output for e-books.

In addition, in the source content step M1 and the mobile content production step M2, text or image data as well as sound are built in the sound e-book database 200. In the mobile service step M3, users output sound. In addition, text or image data is provided to the user if desired.

In this way, the sound book server 300 may provide the contents of the e-book as a sound, or a text, an image, and the like, hereinafter, in the e-book providing process according to a user's request from the portable communication terminal 100. Examine.

First, when the portable communication terminal 100 accesses the sound book server 300 through the wireless Internet, the sound book server 300 moves the guide screen P1 for the sound e-book to the portable communication terminal 100 as shown in FIG. 4. to provide.

At this time, the portable communication terminal 100 and the sound book server 300 are based on the wireless Internet protocol (Wireless Internet Protocol) such as WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) that is not based on the HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) protocol ) Communicates with the gateway via the wireless base station, and once the communication with the portable communication terminal 100 and the gateway is performed through the wireless Internet, the gateway transmits and receives data in accordance with http protocol with the soundbook server 300 which is a web server. The portable communication terminal 100 and the sound book server 300 are connected.

In the guide screen (P1) for the sound e-book, 1. Software introduction 2. Player download 3. Book data download 4. Book update contents and the like can be displayed, the user through the keypad of the portable communication terminal 100 Selecting an item displays a detailed description of that item.

For example, when the software introduction item is selected, the sound e-book introduction screen P2 is displayed, and the screen P2 may effectively deliver the book by the professional actor. The eyes may not be hurt to read the book. 3. You will be presented with an introduction screen for sound e-books, such as Automatically Play Books.

When the book data download item is selected on the sound e-book guide screen (P1), the e-book download screen (P3) is displayed, and this screen (P3) includes: 1. Sexual star-young woman, older woman ..., 2 By Type-Sweet Voice, Refreshing Voice, etc. The selection items for the voice that the user actually hears when the user downloads and executes the e-book are displayed. Therefore, in this screen P3, the user can download the e-book of the sound he wants.

In addition, if a player download item is selected on the sound e-book guide screen P1, a player download screen P4 is displayed, and the portable communication terminal 100 executes a sound e-book on its own terminal through this screen P4. You will be able to download the Mobile Sound Ebook Launcher, a player you can use.

Also, the screen P5 is a screen for executing book update on a book update content item of the sound e-book guide screen P1.

As such, the portable communication terminal 100 accesses the soundbook server 300 according to a wireless Internet protocol such as WAP, and displays items desired by the user through the guide screen P1 for the sound e-book provided by the soundbook server 300. You can choose.

In the sound e-book guide screen P1, only screens related to sound are mainly displayed, but various items for education exist as more detailed items.

On the other hand, the portable communication terminal 100 of various environments may use a virtual machine (VM), MP3, MP4, mid, midi and the like.

The VM user selects a book after downloading the mobile sound e-book S / W from the sound book server 300, and may separately download and output the selected e-book data.

MP4 users may download and output mobile sound e-book data (MP4 format) when installing a program for a VM or without a program.

MP3 users may download and output mobile sound e-book data (MP3 format) when installing a program for a VM or without a program.

A case of using a dual VM will be described with reference to FIG. 5.

When the user executes the mobile sound e-book S / W through the portable communication terminal 100, the selected book data is listed on the display window (S101, S102), and the downloaded e-book data is executed through automatic connection or manual connection play. It outputs through the earphone or the built-in speaker of the portable communication terminal 100 (S103, S104).

On the other hand, if the desired e-book data is not downloaded, when executing the mobile sound e-book S / W access the sound book server 300 to download the desired e-book data through the login process through the normal membership authentication procedure (S105-S110) The contents of the e-book are output as in the steps S102-S104.

Next, a case of using the e-book service of the present invention in a JUNE or MELON service that is currently used will be described with reference to FIG. 6.

Since the JUNE or MELON service corresponds to the MP3 and MP4 users as shown in FIG. 3, the mobile sound e-book S / W is not necessarily installed as the VM user. Thus, the e-book data in the MP3 or MP4 format may be downloaded and used.

That is, when a user accesses the JUNE web page through the portable communication terminal 100 and accesses the sound book server 300 of the present invention, the sound book server 300 undergoes a login process through a normal member authentication procedure (S201-). S204) Then, the sound book server 300 performs a notice or e-book list up (S205, S206).

Thereafter, the user can download a desired e-book from the listed e-books through the portable communication terminal 100 (S207), or use a book preview corresponding to a book tasting (S208).

On the other hand, when you want to use the sound e-book of the present invention for education, when the corresponding item is downloaded and executed in the sound book server 300, the sound output of the portable communication terminal 100 is output the corresponding educational content, portable communication The LCD display window of the terminal 100 may output a text or an image of a corresponding sound output.

For example, in the case of an item for basic Korean Hangul education for children, a sound output and a screen may be displayed as shown in FIG. 7.

As described above, the present invention builds various types of sound formats for the e-book and software for executing the sound e-book in the sound book server 300, and also provides various types of book contents and various types of voices by professional voice actors. It is to build a sound file for the contents so that the user can be provided with the contents of the e-book in various forms of sounds. In addition, it provides text and image data as well as sound, so that it can be used for education.

As described above, although described with reference to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, those skilled in the art various modifications of the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention described in the claims below Or it can be changed.

As described above, the present invention can output the contents of the e-book as a sound, which does not cause eye fatigue, and makes it easier to use the e-book on the go. It is possible to service digital data in the form of sound.

In addition, by outputting the contents of the e-book with the voice and sound effects of professional voice actors, it can be easily used for the implementation fairy tale service for children.

In addition, even users who cannot read letters, such as the blind or presbyopia population, and preschool children, can listen to the contents of books through sound that replaces letters. In addition to the implementation of fairy tales for children, it can be used for a variety of education such as cooking classes, native language pronunciation education, musical instrument classes, and general subjects.

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In the system for providing an e-book to a portable communication terminal via the wireless Internet, A sound book server that provides contents of an e-book in various sound formats through the wireless Internet; And The sound book server provides the contents of the e-book in various sound formats, and the sound e-book data is stored so that the user of the portable communication terminal can listen to the contents of the e-book in various voices. Book database; Mobile soundbook system characterized in that comprises a. The method of claim 1, wherein the sound book server A book sound file generator for generating an e-book sound file by recording book contents; A sound format producer for producing a sound file generated by the book sound file generator in various sound formats; And A sound e-book providing unit which provides a sound format produced by the sound format producing unit and a mobile sound e-book S / W capable of executing e-book data in the portable communication terminal to the portable communication terminal through a wireless internet; Mobile soundbook system characterized in that comprises a. [3] The mobile soundbook system of claim 2, wherein the content recording of the book is recorded by a professional voice actor to increase the user's recognition. The mobile soundbook system according to claim 2, wherein the sound format is a sound format usable by various portable communication terminals including MMF, MP3, MP4, mid, and midi. The mobile soundbook system of claim 1, wherein the soundbook server provides the contents of the e-book as text and image data. In the method for servicing an e-book to a portable communication terminal via wireless Internet, Constructing a corresponding sound e-book database to record the contents of the book in various types of voices and to provide various types of sound formats; And Providing e-book data in a sound format to the portable communication terminal from the sound e-book database according to a sound e-book service request from the portable communication terminal; Mobile soundbook service method comprising a. The method of claim 6, wherein the recording of the book is performed by a professional voice actor to increase the user's awareness. 7. The method of claim 6, wherein the sound format is a sound format usable by various portable communication terminals including MMF, MP3, MP4, mid, and midi. The mobile soundbook service method according to claim 6, wherein the mobile soundbook S / W is constructed so that portable communication terminals of various environments can use the soundbook service when building the soundbook database. The method of claim 6, wherein the content of the book is also constructed from text and image data when the e-book database is constructed.

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